Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
CLARENCE DARROWAncestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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